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Monday Links

Posted on March 13, 2023March 13, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Ex-CDC Director “No Doubt” American Tax Dollars Funded Gain-of-Function Research at Wuhan Lab.
  • Why banks fail: The best commentary on SVB: Scott Sumners, John Cochrane and Larry Kotlikoff.
  • During the Covid pandemic, people cancelled doctors appointments. As a result, more people died.
  • California’s cancellation of Walgreens isn’t as simple as it sounds.
  • Jeffrey Singer on the Iron Law of Prohibition: “The harder the law enforcement, the harder the drug.”
  • Why primary care physicians are not practicing at the top of their license.
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Daylight Savings Time is Bad for Your Health

Posted on March 13, 2023 by Devon Herrick

Sunday morning at 2:00am on March 12th Daylight savings time (DST) officially began for 2023. Today you are no doubt feeling the loss of an hour of sleep, but what is worse is our internal clock (also known as our circadian rhythm) does not necessarily adjust quickly. Thus, we go to bed  an hour before our body feels like it’s time and can’t go to sleep for an hour. Yet our alarm clocks still rings at 6:00am, which to our bodies feels like 5:00am.

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NY Times: AI Can Read Mammograms as Good or Better than Radiologists

Posted on March 11, 2023 by Devon Herrick

There is a new artificial intelligence (AI) interface that’s been in the news lately called ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a language-based AI chatbot that can do many things humans can do. Some tasks it can do better than humans can do. A week or so ago I asked Would You See an AI Doctor?, Saying:

Radiologists sometimes use computer-aided detection (CAD) to interpret mammograms as a backup to human interpretation. Using both a radiologist and CAD together increases accuracy.

A few days later The New York Times reported on an ongoing test in Hungary, where AI is being used to assist in reading mammograms.

Inside a dark room at Bács-Kiskun County Hospital outside Budapest, Dr. Éva Ambrózay, a radiologist with more than two decades of experience, peered at a computer monitor showing a patient’s mammogram.

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Saturday Links

Posted on March 11, 2023March 11, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Health officials and governors in more than half the country are now restricted from issuing mask mandates and school closures.
  • The 42% of adults who are obese costs the US health system 173 billion dollars a year, including cardiovascular disease, cancers, depression, breathing issues, and skeletal issues. Despite this, 98 percent of Americans do not receive treatment for their obesity.
  • Greg Mankiw: “The Biden administration faces a trilemma: They would like to (1) increase spending on programs they consider important, (2) not raise taxes on those making less than $400,000 a year, and (3) put fiscal policy on a sustainable path. But the stark reality is that they can have only 2 out of the 3.”
  • A defense of Vinyl chloride. (despite the dead fish)
  • IRS: 42K federal workers are cheating on their taxes.
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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.

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